Evaluation of Visceral Adipose Tissue Oxygenation by Blood Oxygen Level-Dependent MRI in Zucker Diabetic Fatty Rats.
Hong-Jian ShiYan-Feng LiWen-Jie JiZhi-Chun LinWei CaiTao ChenBin YuanXiu-Long NiuHan-Ying LiWen ShuYu-Ming LiFei YuanXin ZhouZhuoli ZhangPublished in: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) (2018)
This work demonstrated the feasibility of BOLD-MRI for detecting the VAT oxygenation status in ZDF rats, and the BOLD-MRI signals were associated with insulin resistance and systemic metaflammation in ZDF rats during the development of obesity.
Keyphrases
- insulin resistance
- adipose tissue
- contrast enhanced
- magnetic resonance imaging
- type diabetes
- high fat diet
- metabolic syndrome
- diffusion weighted imaging
- high fat diet induced
- skeletal muscle
- polycystic ovary syndrome
- blood flow
- weight loss
- magnetic resonance
- resting state
- computed tomography
- weight gain
- wound healing
- physical activity
- body mass index